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Uncle Billy ExPInans --r1u,
The Independent.

Ihe In0ependent.
They met by chance. Uncle Billy
was grizzly and black. Uncle Ben was
black and grizzly. In other particulars
they were carefully copied limitations oi
each other.
"Brudder Billy" commenced Uncle
Ben in an anxious tone.
"Well, brudder Ben p
eyer reckumlecs dat dollrnaf yer
owes me?"
"Brudder Ben," replied Uncle Billy
with sudden and suspicious vivacity,
"does yer know dat yer de berry gem
plemun Use been huntin' fur2''
'Wy didn't yer find me, den?"
"Bekase," said Uncle Billy.
"Nor, look ahyar," said the other,
"dat dom settle dis queshun bout de
dollernaf.
"De berry pint Use a gwine ter git
after now," responded old Billy
"Yer's willin' ter submit, 1 reckon
dat Use wild white folks more'n you
is7"
elbow dar effectuate de dollernaf7"
"Wy, yer fool niggah, dis de way it
is. Does yer happen ter know dat de
suckumlatin' mejum OBJ de kentry am
holy inadkit?"
"De good Gorramighty hev mussy p
exclaimed Ben. "Is it done come
bout desc parts? l feel sorter bad in
the stummick, mebbe Use got it."
"Got what? ?" grunted Billy.
"Wy, dat bad disease yer speaks of
de suckem faiths mejim an de Holy
Inadkit."
"Its pooty bad," said Billy, darkly !;
"but it's wuss'n airy disease"
"Harrycane?" suggested Ben.
"Wuss'n dat.''
"Airthquake1"
''It beats all dem," said Billy; "my
old master sez dat without 'fashun
OBJ de suckemlashum de kentry's gone
up"
"Wy don't de church take hole OBJ
it {" aueEied .sna Bsna So. .o. " ".u ~.
81 tort it mout sorter fix tings wild
de Holy Inadkit," muttered Ben.
"No, sah," continued old Billy,
nuthin's gwine ter help us but fashun. |"
eden Use got ter git some," said
Ben; "but what yer say bout dat dol
lernaf?"
"Now, brudder Ben," replied Billy,
"I'se been 'litenin' yer on dat ar berry
pint all along"
"Um!"
81 has, tell yer. When we get
'fashun greenbacks will be plenty, jest
like Confedrit money used to was, and
we'll all hev morn we knows what ter
do wid."
"Am dat de troof?" asked Ben.
''It am dat"
"Well, den, brudder Billy, sposen
yer just han ober dat dollernaf-yer'll
be all right when fashun comes along"
81 reckin not" said Billy. "Dat's
de berry way ter prevent 'fashun, an
its my solum dooty ter suspen' all ex-
pendings till dis ting am settled"
"Hey!'
sYes, it am. We mus make Guv'
ment believe dat de suckumlation S
holy inadkit, by not paying out any
more money"
eyer means dat yer amt gwine ter
pay dat dollernaf2"
eNo, sab. l only suspends till
'fashun comes!'
"Well, dog my cats !" said Ben, "1'll
git even wild yer yit. I'll make de
clutch take hole OBJ dis; I'll 60 an see
de Holy Inadkit myself"
And Ben hobbled off in high dud-
geon.
"Neber kin teach desc fool niggahs
anything" grumbled Uncle Billy
"Spose ebberybody paid der debts,
what nd be de use OBJ 'flashun2"
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Davenport Democrat.

"Do 90 love me?" The mother was
beside the couch of her first born, try
ing to put it to sleep.
eyes, darling, mamma loves you
dearly now shut your little eyes and 60
to sleep"
"Ef Minty Jones's papa was my papa,
would 90 love zen ?"
"Don't talk any more darling, you'll
never get to sleep"
"Ef Minty Jones's mamma was my
mamma, and my papa was Minty Jones's
papa, would you love me zen 2"
"Now, sweet, you are too bad not to
try and sleep"
"Ef 90 wasn't my mamma, and eft |
hadn't no papa, would 90 love me
zen."
"Now you just stop this talk or III
do something to you"
"Ef my papa hadn't seen 90, would
would" The little head turned to
one side with closed eyes and the moth
er looked at it moment, and tear
welled up, and she kissed her little ont
softly and lingeringly as her HUSBAND
stepped in and she told him the stor.
of their child's babble.
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A COntented Farmer.

Once upon time Frederick, King
of Prussia, surnamed "Old Fritz" took
a ride, and espied.an old farmer, plow-
ing his acre by the wayside, cheerily
singing his melody.
"You must be well off, old man, -
said the king. "Does this acre belong
to you, on which you so industrionsly
labor 2"
"No, SIR" replied the farmer, who
knew not that it was the king; 81 am
not so rich as that; I plow this for
wages"
elbow much do you get day1"
asked the king.
"Eight groschen" (about twenty
cents), said the farmer.
"That is not much," replied the
king; "can you get along with this ?"
"Get along and have something left. !"
"How is that?'
The farmer smiled !as>A A-A;d
"WeI1, if must tell you, two grosch-
en- are for myself and wife, two l pay
toward my old debts, two lend away,
and two l give away for the Lords
sake"
"This is mystery which l cannot
solve," replied the king.
"Then l will solve it for you," said
farmer. 81 have two old parents at
home who kept me when was weak
and needed help; and now that they
are weak and need help I keep them
This is my debt, toward which l pay
two groschen day. The third pair of
groschen, which I lend away, l spend
for my children, that they may receive
Christian instruction. This will come
handy to me and my wife when we get
old. With the last two groschen l
maintain two sick sisters, whom l would
not be compelled to keep; this l give
for the Lords sake"
The king we'll pleased with the an
swer, said:
"Bravely spoken, old man. Now l
will also give you something to guess.
Have you ever seen me before?"
"Never," said the farmer.
"In less than five minutes you shall
see me fifty times and carry in your
pocket fifty of my likeness.
"This is riddle which l cannot
unravel," said the farmer.
"Then I will do it for you," replied
the king.
Thrusting his hand into his pocket,
and counting him fifty brand-new gold
pieces into his hand, stamped with his
royal likeness, he said to the astonished
farmer, who knew not what was coming:
"The coin is genuine, for it also
comes from our Lord God, and l am
His paymaster. bid you adieu. F"
The above is found in an excellent
work entitled Mr.. F0r1er's Scrap B0Ok.
1t conveys an admirable lesson of humil-
ity and contentment.
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GrandmOther's Bible.

$50 you've brought me this costly Bible,
3 With its covers so grand and gay:
You thought must need new one
On my eghty-frst birthday, you say;
Yes, mine is worn-out volume,
Grown ragged and yellow with age,
With fnger-prints thick on the margin;
But there's never missing page.
"And the fnger-prints call back my wee ones
Just learning verse to repeat;
And again, in the twilight, their faces
Look up to me, eagerly sweet.
1t has pencil marks pointed in silence,
To words had hid in my heart;
And the lesson so hard in the learning,
Once learned, can never depart.
"Your gift is beauty, my dearie,
With its wonderful clasps of gold,
Put it carefully into that drawer;
shall keep it till death but the old
Just leave it close by on the table,
And then you may bring me light,
And I'll read sweet psalm from its pages
To think of, if wakeful tonight"
London Christion.
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D@The great road of human welfare
lies along the old highway of steadfast
well-doing.
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Miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous.
. Best . Made .
Clothing

THE Fall and Winter stock foy
1888, noao being exlihted at
Oehm's Acme Hall is pronounced
by e0e'yboay to be tile .gyuudesf by
TAR, and most c/zoice e5,ey seen in
Baltimore, a0Alze sA,rqVd Judges de-
clare tile prices to be 'aOay beloaV
Mose Of any other h0use IN tile bus
mess :. Tile great stock Of FUR
N/SHING GOODS is Ake7u;se
sold ve,y close =. Call and see MS.
Nls1t0ry, a0hekhey buysNg or a,oz, esss-
0la0ays a0eAc0me, and s0e have eve,y
convenience for Meir accomm0aa-
hon =. If unable TO come, send far
Catalogues, Samples and Self
Measurements, aOAlch shall be fer
aoaraed, free Of eost, by return mail.
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Da~tI wish l could afford to have
the house painted this summer said
Mr.. Chippenberry as he stood out in
the front yard after supper and looked
over his domicile. Cant you get it
Autographed 2 suggested Mrs. Chippen-
berry. Autographs are SO much
cheaper than real painting, you know.
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DH-"Do you suffer much from cold
feet 2" inquired the shoe merchant,
with kindly interest, as he complied
with the lady's request and showed her
the thickest -soled shoe he had in the
store.
"She suffer ?" broke in her husband,
impetuously. "Great Scott She suf-
fer1 Not much2 I'm the victim. I'm
the one that has to suf-"
George /" said the lady. That was
all she said, but George seemed to un-
derstand, and the merchant observed in
deferential and funeral way that it
looked as if there was going to be some
kind of a storm if the wind didn't
change.
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"Well, there is one consolation. She
will never wear them -


will never wear them /"
81 don't think she cares for them.
She has enough of her own," returned
Lucy, rising with a naughty GESTURE
"My friends, there has been a little de-
ception here. When my cousin and I
started on this journey, we agreed to
change names and places-just for the
fun of the thing. 1t seems to me that
it is now time to assume our real char
acters. am Lucy Terry, and Blanche
Rodney there is my well-beloved teach
er, cousin and"
Here Blanche abruptly left the room
and I followed, for was free now to
seek and win her. As the door closed
behind me I heard Lucy say: sI
trust, my dear ladies, that the gain of
rich daughter-in-law will compensate
you for the loss of the family dia-
monds."
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s@There are fifty individuals and
firms in New York City whose aggre-
gate wealth is estimated by careful
judges to aggregate fully $1,000, ,ooo,-
600.
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BALIlMOHE, MD.
WALL PAPERS DOWN! POOL BURSTED /!
POOL BURSTED! WALL PAPERS DOWN!
WALL PAPER CTS. PER PIECE.
WALL PAPER CTS. PER PIECE.
GOLD PAPER, BEAUTIFUL, 20 CTs PER PIECE.
MORE BEAUTIFUL, 25 Crs. PER PIECE.
100000 pieces to be sold in the next ninety days
to make room for our FALL STOCK, which we
have selected with great taste. Property owners
and agents are invited to examine our stock
Large force of experienced workmen on hand to
put up same. Window Shades of all descriptions
from 30 cents to the finest shade, put up to order
Call and see for yourselves. Don't whitewash
when you can have a room papered so cheap.
THE OLD RELIABLE
WALL PAPER And WINDOW SHADE STORE,
80 N. Gay Street (old number), new No. 1913,
Opposite Odd Fellows Hall, BALTIMORE.
Country trade supplied. Send for samples.
Sept. 1O.-3m.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-09

HAUB'S RESTAURANT,
No. $40 street............... Sacramento.
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Combinations.

WAsH1yGToN. February Sth.-The Sen
ate to-day made the following confrma-
tons T. w. Langford, Associate Justice,
Washington Territory; II. E. Hayden,
Clerk Of the District Court of Alaska; F.
Hoffman, Jr., Appraiser, Chicago; ]. R
Ryan, Assayer, Carson, New. Postmasters
H. F. Fox, Healdsburg Cal; ], G. Kin
ney, Provo City, Utah; S. NJ. Miller, Vaca-
vile, Cal; Edward Ingram, Monterey, Cal.
Registers of the Land Office-M. F. Beetle,
Fargo, D. T.; s. j. Delan, Glenwood Spring,
Col Receiver of Public Moneys-D. J,
Sullivan Prescott A r
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mercial, railway and public interests in
volved, and generally in conformity with
the definitions of the law, as explained by
Senator Cullom in the Senate debate
thereon; and the Association will cooper
ate with the Commissioners under the in
terstate commerce law in securing,
as far as possible, the benefits
of that bill. and in a faithful
observance of all its provisions. That the
committee meet with the trunk lines Ex-
ecutive Committee on the call of the latter,
and that the joint Executive Committee so
constituted for that purpose, proceed to
such further agreement and recommends
tons of detail as may be required by the
Interpretation Of the Act agreed upon by
such Executive Committee, and then sub
nit the same to a meeting of the Associa-
ton for its final action.
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE..
Meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Central Traffic Assnciatinn

Meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Central Traffic Association.
CLEVELAND (0.), February 9th.-J he Elk
eculive Committee of the Central Traffic
Association met yesterday at the Office OF
President Newell of the Lake Shore road,
and adopted a very important set of resolu-
tons. The meeting had been called for
the purpose of deciding the fate of the Or
ganization whether, under the Interstate
Commerce Act, it could maintain an ex-
istence if so, in what form, and what its
relations to the recent national legislation
were. Commissioner Blanchard delivered
an address to the committee, outlining
what he thought should be the policy of
the Association in respect to the Interstate
Commerce Act. Other addresses followed
from various members, and resolutions,
embodying the sentiment and opinion ex-
pressed, were unanimously adopted. These
resolutions are in effect that the commit
tee recommends that the Central Traffic
Association be continued, with the under
standing that its methods of statistics.
statements. etc, be revised TO conform to
such railway action under the interstate
law as shall be finally decided upon that
the law should be accepted and interpreted
with just regard for the great mutual CON-
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LIEPIG UISPENSARY.

90 Geary street, san Francisco. Cal.
Private Entrance 405 Sasen street, four block
,lp Geary street from Eesrny. Main entrance
through Oispensary Drug Store. ds-IYcEylyeor
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There are many
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ing OF the system in manner they cannot &C
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The following medicines supplied at the price
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OUR LITTLE GRANDCHlLD.
Cleansed, Purified and Beautified
by the Cuticura Remedies.

Il affords me pleasure to give you this report
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became more and more impure il took less time
for them to break oat. sore came on the chin,
beneath the under lip, which was very offensive.
His head was one solid scah. discharging great
deal This his condition at twenty-five
months o.u when undertook the care OF bin,
his mother having died when he little
more than year old, of consumption tscrofuis
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So PREVALENT AND FATAL has Consump-
ton become, that it is now everywhere
dreaded as the great scourge of humanity :;
and yet, in their formative stages, all Pull
monary Complaints may be readily re-
lieved and controlled by resorting promptly
to DR.. D. Jayne's Expectorant, curative
specially adapted to soothe and strengthen
the Bronchial tubes, allay Inflammation
and loosen and remove all distractions 1t
is a certain remedy for Asthma, and also
for Coughs and Colds.
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MERCHANDISE REPORT.

The following freight passed Ogden on the
18th instant;
For Sacramento-E. Z. Peart (care Captain a.
FOSTER, l case clothing: NJ. Duffy, wagon
springs; T. II. Cook d Co, 10 boxes salt fish;
Whittier, Fuller Il Co.. box molding; NJ. L.
Wise, S wagon springs: Hall, LuhIs & Co, ,2333
hams, 600 eases canned meats; T. W. Schwamb,
l box molding; Weinst0ck II Lubin G. cases
boots and shoes; Baker l. Hamilton, > casks iron
pulley blocks, boxes brushes
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Relief from Indigestion.

221 SECOND AVE, New York, Jan. 8. 1856.
l deem it my pleasure to testify to the
phenomenal effects of Brandreth's Pills
upon myself in Graduating from my sys-
tenn the most aggravated form of indiges-
ton, the attacks OF which were nearly as
severe as spasms. After costly medical
treatment two boxes of Brandreth's Pills
have put me in a better condition than
have been for years. FRANK w. GILLFTT.
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NOTICE OF STREET WORK.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IT Is
N the intention of the Board of Trustees of
the city of Sacramento to have Twenty-second
street from H to NJ improved by grading to the
official grade and constructing Oregon pine cross
walks and drainage culyerts. Said improve
ments TO be made IN accordance with resolu-
ton passed by the Board of Trustees on the 9TH
day of FEBRUARY, 1887, to which all parties
interested are referred for further particulars.
feS-I5t JOHN RYAN, Street Commissioner.
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GOVERNORS SEcRETARY--Senator Clunie
thinks the Governors Private Secretary
ought to receive a salary of $1,000 year,
and introduces bill to give it to him.
There are fifteen States in this Union which
pay their Governors only $4,000 or less,
and we do not think it takes more brains
to be Private Secretary to the Governor of
California than it does to be Governor of
Alabama, Maine or North Carolina.-L6a-
coin GHzeffe
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PURCHASE
SACRAMENTO CITY COUPONS

rI1HE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF TIE
Funded Debt Sinking Fund of the city OF
Sacramento hereby give notice that they viii
par for coupons cut from Sacramento City
Ponds, funded under the Acts OF 1858 and 1851.
the following prices, to wit: Coupons of 1876
which were registered January I, 1876, IS per
cent of the face value; for othereoupors Of 1S76
and 1877, % cents; for coupons of 1878 SO cents;
of 1879, 81 cents; of 1850 70 cents; of 1881, "a
cents; of 1882 30 een,s OF 1885, Go cents; OF 1854
60 cents OF 1855, SO ee:ts; of lsS6, So cents; Of
1857, 50 cents
Address Funded Debt Commissioners. ssers-
hento, California.
q. o. BEATTY
CEAs, g. PARSONS.
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OFFICIAL NOTICES.
CITY TRUSTEES OFFICE,

GAJIsl4.lf 70, I JOI N9tI y l05F'
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT / II AVE
n this day received the Assessment Roll for
the construction of a Sewer in the alley between
X and L. from Fifth to Sixth Streets ana the same
is now open for inspection. any objections to
said assessment must be fled at this Office within
ten days from above date.
fae Il + II MCKEE Clerk